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I have told people for years, call a cam company and ask them what would work best,then call them a week later and you may get a totally different suggestion .



My car is not a purpose built race car and will never be as long as I own it. It's a street/strip car and has to run on pump gas. Five years ago when I built the 408 that's in my Dart now one of my racing buddies (chevy guy) gave me a phone number to "his guy" at Comp Cams. This guy does nascar cams and cams for the big name drag racers. So I call him up and we talk for probably 10 minutes, I give him all the specs on my combo, engine, gears, what I'm doing with it, the whole nine yards. The cam he recommends is smaller than the Hughes hydraulic that was in my 340 at the time. I call Hughes give them all the same info and they recommend two flat solids, I chose the bigger of the two. It's ran 6.57 in the 1/8 on radials and pump 93.

Maybe that's why my buddies 406, roller cam on race gas was only a tenth faster than my 340 .